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Series: Object Lessons
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Ideal for readers interested in digital culture, media studies, communications, and social activism, as well as those curious about the intersections of technology and society.
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Best Books of 2019—Scholarly Kitchen
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Hashtags can silence as well as shout. They originate in the quiet of the archive and the breathless suspense of the control room, and find voice in the roar of rallies in the streets. The hashtag is a composite creation, with two separate but related design histories: one involving the crosshatch symbol and one about the choice of letters after it.
Celebration and criticism of hashtag activism rarely address the hashtag as an object or try to locate its place in the history of writing for machines. Although hashtags tend to be associated with Silicon Valley invention myths or celebrity power users, the story of the hashtag is much longer and more surprising, speaking to how we think about naming, identity, and being human in a non-human world.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Series: Object Lessons
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Praised for its insightful historical research and clear prose, Hashtag has been lauded by scholars such as Wendy Chun for its analysis of the hashtag's role in gender, race, and labour discussions. Siva Vaidhyanathan highlights the book's accessible explanation of how this simple symbol enables profound communication both among humans and between humans and computers, marking it as one of the century's most significant communicative inventions.
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ISBN: 9781501344275
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 September 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 118.0mm
Height: 160.0mm
Weight: 140g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Elizabeth Losh is Associate Professor of English and American Studies at William and Mary, USA. She is the author of the multi-award-winning The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University (2014). Her other publications include Virtualpolitik: An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes (2009), Understanding Rhetoric, co-authored with Jonathan Alexander (2013; second edition 2017), and, as editor, MOOC and Their Afterlives: Experiments in Scale and Access in Higher Education, editor (2017).
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